Protestant Politics Beyond Calvin: Reformed Theologians on War in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries [Paperback]

Chapter 1: Peter Martyr Vermigli and his Commentary on Genesis / Chapter 2: Lambert Daneau on Ethics, Politics, and the Anti-Christ / Chapter 3: Bartholom?us Keckermann, Aristotelianism, and the Holy Roman Empire after the Peace of Augsburg / Chapter 4: Guillaume du Buc and the Institutiones Theologicae / Chapter 5: David Pareus and his Commentary on Romans / Chapter 6: Johann Heinrich Alsted on Interaction with non-Christians and War against Blasphemers / Chapter 7: Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf on Religious Intervention in Foreign States / Chapter 8: Venceslaus Clemens Gustavis and the Thirty Years War as a Religious Conflict / Chapter 9: Dudley Fenner, Puritanism, and Reformed Resistance Theory / Chapter 10: Gisbertus Voetius, the Dutch Revolt, and Religious Toleration in the United Provinces / Chapter 11: Johannes Hoornbeeck and the Reformed against Holy War

These texts and translations are accompanied by an introduction placing these authors in the context of the great European religious wars, advice on further reading, and a full bibliography.

The Reformed (or Calvinist) universities of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe hosted rich, Latin-language conversations on the nature of politics, the powers of kings and magistrates, resistance, revolution, and religious warfare. Nevertheless, it is too often assumed that Reformed political thought did not develop beyond John Calvins Institutes of 1559. This book remedies this problem, presenting extracts from major Reformed theologians and intellectuals (including Peter Martyr Vermigli, Guillaume de Buc, David Pareus, Lambert Daneau, and Bartholom?us Keckermann) which demonstrate both continuity and change in Reformed political argument. These men taught in France, the Holy Roman Empire, the Low Countries, and England, between the 1540s and 1660s, but they were read iló›